A huge number of impressions! Huge stadium and amazing atmoshere.I sitting in stands, suddenly Yenisei sits down, coach of Yenisei Vakil Valeev is behind me, trainer Slava Andre Tradu and coach of Yenisei Karel Reinard are on left, as well as player Aleksei Shcherban ...Therefore when after match met German Godluk from VVA i was no longer surprised at anything ...

absolutely deserved the defeat of the team which is still a whole month before the start of the season, and being without its leaders.6 months to prepare and in the end we see a limp toothless team that for six months could not even get in shape to play all 80 minutes...it's just a shame and not Rugby !!!!!!!!!!

The first two tries were Russian signature. Concede after promising build and attacking play and then have no idea how to rebuild the defensive line once we get isolated and turned over and watch the opposition return the ball 80 metres in 20 seconds. It's been our kryptonite forever and I have no idea where we go to address it. If you remove those two moments (yes, i know the scoring of the points), the first half was very promising.

Likewise, the last couple of tries were scored when we lost every available lock (save Garbuzov, who's hardly your typical second row anyway) and Vavilin clearly didnt even know if scrums should be uncontested with him the second row. Connacht went straight to scrum/lineout/milk it. They are recent league winners, know what coming to Russia entails, and are definitely not shit.

We were not at all crap until around the hour when all the injuries kicked in and there were times when we were playing with 14 because Fedotko refused to get off the field. Ostrikov, Fedotko, Zhivatov (came back), Selsky, Vas, and god knows who else were all either temporarily or permanently off through injury. That's of far more concern than this result or performance, which was approximately one million miles north of the Italy and Jersey games. (We're better than Canada and Namibia. Unfortunately, they get to play each other.) Dorofeev looked good, Davydov has sorted his temperament and is pretty special. Gotovtsev was not lost. I dont think it was Golosnitsky's greatest game, but he's a hope. Morozov is the real deal. I still don't understand the complete abandonment of several Enisei/very recent Enisei players (Pervukhin has zero history of politics, folks).

Also, please let Petrovsky Park become our home. And please, Igor, doesnt need 15 mins on the mic before the games. I didn't know whether the Connacht players would burst out laughing with the increasingly shite interpretation (how is she still there?) or cramp up first.

Our tactic was to have 14 players in the defensive line and leave just a fullback in back field.

Exactly the same defence tactic that was tried against Italy.So this is how Lyn Jones plans to shut down Japan attack. The idea is to have everyone in the defensive line; Tamura is bad and he won't be able to exploit lack of players in back field with his kicking like Allan did.